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Post by wackadoodle on Apr 5, 2009 15:50:19 GMT -5
www.fstdt.net/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=61182I saw this on the "main page" and it got me thinking of how "fundies" don't realize that"quotes" are supposed to be used "sparringly" and that using them three times in one sentence makes you look "ridiculous". Have you noticed the more "quotes" someone uses the more obvious it is their "fearmongers" with no real "substance"? Everyone does "this" to some "extent" but the fundies always seem to go "overboard".
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Post by Sayna on Apr 5, 2009 16:15:02 GMT -5
I've often seen them reffered to as scare quotes. Usually it's a way of calling something a euphemism or nonsense and it's often used to give the word/phrase a negative connotation. That post is a classic example of fundie scare quotes! Note that "hate" and "bullying" liberal buzzword for when loving innocent Christians act out their god-given superiority over "gays" which apparently aren't real and that the "Safe Schools Movement" wants to seduce your little lambs into the homosexual buttsecks mafia. See also The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Apr 5, 2009 16:17:21 GMT -5
Hey, it's a perfectly "acceptable" grammatical construction used to denote a "common" and "intellectual" speech pattern. You "shouldn't" mock it, they "are" using pragmatics to get a "valid" point across in a very "clever" way.
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Post by wmdkitty on Apr 5, 2009 16:25:30 GMT -5
I'm incredibly "amused" by this "thread" -- then again, I'm "stoned".
It's like there's an invisible "if you know what I mean" attached to every sentence!
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Post by MozMode on Apr 5, 2009 16:42:02 GMT -5
I'm incredibly "amused" by this "thread" -- then again, I'm "stoned". It's like there's an invisible "if you know what I mean" attached to every sentence! You're so "lucky" to be "stoned." I'm at work and I'd "love" to be stoned.
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Post by wmdkitty on Apr 5, 2009 16:44:49 GMT -5
I'm incredibly "amused" by this "thread" -- then again, I'm "stoned". It's like there's an invisible "if you know what I mean" attached to every sentence! You're so "lucky" to be "stoned." I'm at work and I'd "love" to be stoned. Dude, if I could reach through the interwebs, I'd smoke you out.
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Post by Horsefeathers on Apr 5, 2009 22:44:28 GMT -5
I have to admit, I've been guilty of overusing quotes at times. Generally it's because where I'm posting doesn't allow some other type of emphasis like italics or bold so I put it in quotes. Depending on what idiot I'm berating at the moment I may need quite a bit of emphasis to get my point across so I end up with many, many quotes all over the place. Ugly, but necessary.
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Post by Sleepy on Apr 6, 2009 0:17:18 GMT -5
I find it extremely difficult to read fluently with so many quotes. Every time I come across a set used with common nouns, I say it in my mind like someone would say it out loud in that stupid voice while doing air quotes with his/her fingers.
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on Apr 6, 2009 1:53:25 GMT -5
You're so "lucky" to be "stoned." I'm at work and I'd "love" to be stoned. Dude, if I could reach through the interwebs, I'd smoke you out. I bet you will. If you know what I mean. And I think you do.
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Post by Angel on Apr 6, 2009 1:55:47 GMT -5
I find it extremely difficult to read fluently with so many quotes. Every time I come across a set used with common nouns, I say it in my mind like someone would say it out loud in that stupid voice while doing air quotes with his/her fingers. Haha, me too. It makes it very hard to take anyone using quotes that gratuitously seriously.
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Post by perv on Apr 6, 2009 2:07:48 GMT -5
I use quotes pretty heavily too. But I NEVER use them for emphases. There are *better* ways to do that even when formating is unavailable. There are three main situations when I'll use them. Scare quotes, for instance when referring to the "victim" of a consensual sex act that was illegal. To change a word from a use to mention. "Chartreuse" refers to a yellow-green color. Or to indicate that I'm using a word or phrase in a technical or unusual sense. He "buffed" my character with a giant strength spell.
Oh yeah, and actual quotations too.
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Post by Trevelyan on Apr 6, 2009 2:50:01 GMT -5
I was under the impression that your should only use quotations when you are actually quoting something, or you mean something sarcastically. If this is true, it makes a lot of what people post both hilarious and slightly confusing.
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Post by wmdkitty on Apr 6, 2009 17:21:52 GMT -5
Dude, if I could reach through the interwebs, I'd smoke you out. I bet you will. If you know what I mean. And I think you do. ::giggle-snort:: Why did that sound so dirty?
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Post by Old Viking on Apr 6, 2009 19:03:46 GMT -5
Fundies don't like to get booged down in grammar, spelling, syntax or standard usage. It slows the functioning of their rapier-like minds.
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Post by Redhunter on Apr 7, 2009 1:07:29 GMT -5
I was under the impression that your should only use quotations when you are actually quoting something, or you mean something sarcastically. If this is true, it makes a lot of what people post both hilarious and slightly confusing. Exactly what I thought. When I use them they aren't "hilarious and slightly confusing" as far as I know because I use them when "actually quoting something" like lines or phrases or words from what someone else has said so I was also, "under the impression" that it was the only way to use them. But if I were referencing the basics of what you said in the last line I might type it like this: You said it was 'hilarious and confusing' and I agree with that. 'Hilarious and confusing' is the gist but not a direct quote, the direct quote would be like this: You're right; it is "both hilarious and slightly confusing." So that's the way I thought it all worked, but then again, I have a history of getting shit wrong.
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